Glamour's Hot List of Albums to Download This Week, Starring Paramore

This week's Glamour Hot List brings us anthemic rock and icy electronica. Get into seriously excellent new albums by Paramore and indie favorites James Blake and the Knife. Decide what best complements your taste, per our hearts rating and Glam Tracks recommendations! Click each album cover below for a link to preview and/or make a purchase. Tune in... Paramore—Paramore This album is a welcome departure for the trio in terms of overall energy, thoughtfulness, and production. Jeremy Davis and Taylor York turn the volume up high on their amplifiers and start a party. And Hayley Williams sounds scrappier than ever, morphing her vocal turns to sound as slick and effervescent as the superstar she was born to be. This collection of songs is more upbeat than anything they've ever done, but not for a lack of complexity or emotional grit; the love songs pack the mightiest TKO. It's as if they've let go of proving themselves and are just allowing themselves to rock. Glam Tracks: "Now" "Still Into You," "Daydreaming," "Hate to See Your Heart Break" Our Rating: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ James Blake—Overgrown British singer-songwriter and producer James Blake made his mark as electronic music's newest prodigal son with

This week's Glamour Hot List brings us anthemic rock and icy electronica. Get into seriously excellent new albums by Paramore and indie favorites James Blake and the Knife. Decide what best complements your taste, per our hearts rating and Glam Tracks recommendations! Click each album cover below for a link to preview and/or make a purchase. Tune in...

Paramore—Paramore

This album is a welcome departure for the trio in terms of overall energy, thoughtfulness, and production. Jeremy Davis and Taylor York turn the volume up high on their amplifiers and start a party. And Hayley Williams sounds scrappier than ever, morphing her vocal turns to sound as slick and effervescent as the superstar she was born to be. This collection of songs is more upbeat than anything they've ever done, but not for a lack of complexity or emotional grit; the love songs pack the mightiest TKO. It's as if they've let go of proving themselves and are just allowing themselves to rock.

British singer-songwriter and producer James Blake made his mark as electronic music's newest prodigal son with his breakthrough self-titled album nearly two years ago. That album captured the essence of space and time literally, as suitelike songs used silence as chilly white noise. Overgrown features more linear production and that same hauntingly soulful voice of his, resulting in an intriguing batch of songs that brood like Ryan Gosling in an indie movie. What I love: It doesn't matter how many more sounds enrich Blake's (tasteful, already rich) palette. He remains the strong silent type.

Glam Tracks: "Retrograde," "Voyeur," "Life Round Here," "To the Last"

Our Rating: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

The Knife—Shaking the Habitual

At a mammoth 98-minute running time, the curious sort of listening experience that the mysterious Swedish duo the Knife has crafted feels akin to falling through Alice's Wonderland looking-glass. Karin Dreijer Andersson and Olof Dreijer aim to play with our sense of time, reeling us in with melodies that seem readily accessible, and then keeping us in an almost uncomfortably long vice grip as songs float in and out like drones. The beats are idiosyncratic, atmospheric "electronica" (if it must be neatly classified), and the vocals feel vaguely nonhuman. The album's subject matter is quite human, however, as the Knife challenges politics—ideas of democracy, patriarchy, and industrialism—which only adds to the fun of allowing this album to unravel in your subconscious. Think of Alice discovering the Mad Hatter, except he has the Cheshire Cat's gleefully sinister face.